I read your links to the Indian aircraft carrier developments and found some other links that describe the situation and depict the rebuilt Baku / RS Gorshkov / INS Vikramaditya and the new build IAC / INS Vikrant.

The first link is to a new thread at MilitaryPhotos.net. Post # 1 is composed of two news reports. Post # 9 contains illustrations of the two above mentioned aircraft carriers. It also contains some additional information regarding the building INS Vikrant.

The second link contains a review of the rebuilding Baku / RS Groshkov / INS Vikramaditya. There are multiple pictures taken during the process of reconstruction. You can see how the shipyard grafted an add-on extension to the bow of the old Baku / Gorshkov to create the new ski-jump bow featured on the Vidramaditya. That ski-jump bow now appears to be basically complete (while the superstructure is still being worked on). She’s a much-changed ship.

^^ Not at all, those articles are totally unfounded, purely speculative and for the purpose of scaremongering, the twat that wrote that peice hates everything that isn’t a flat-top and the bigger the better, pretty sure I had the displeasure of bumping into him in the early 90s.

However, we should have gone solo from day 1, never mind NFR-90, nevermind Project Horizon. British developed SAMs(altough Aster is pretty much a British missile anyway) from MK.41 VLS

SAMPSON is a great bit of kit, would’ve liked to have seen more on SPECTAR it had great potential (although it appeared costly… if only it didn’t have potential, the USN would have lapped it up for LCS)

Should have gone AEGIS for Daring. Always said so. Even the Spanish (can we have another handout please Brussels) and Norway (EU no thanks) chose American. Supposedly the US closes ally and we go European…………

Having read this I believed it was really informative. I appreciate you spending some time and effort to put this short article together. I once again find myself spending a significant amount of time both reading and leaving comments. But so what, it was still worthwhile!